Anna Maria Schreiter (1872-1960)

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Anna Marie Schreiter

Story: Anna had "a way" with plants and animals

Anna with her turkeys, at the family cottage in Forestville, Michigan

Like her mother before her, and like her two daughters after her, my maternal grandmother and namesake, Anna, had "a way” with plants and animals. When I think of her, which I do often, I almost always picture her in her garden or tending to her chickens, ducks, or turkeys.

Here she is with her flock, in front of the turkey coop at the Riedel cottage compound on Lake Huron. That same turkey coop became the primitive cabin that I and my parents used to visit in the summer when we were still living in Michigan. My husband and children also saw it when we visited the Riedel cottage in 1976.

Turkey coop cottage

Individual Facts

Zwickau, Germany, Anna's birthplace

Shared Facts

Louis and Anna Riedel

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